Sql concat columns still not aligning

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I have data in a SQL table that is displaying like this:

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BIO12345-A   -Wifey   
BIO12345-B   -Life and Times of Collins     
BIO12346     -Madeline
BIO12347     -Cooking with Betty
BIO99999-A-San Francisco Superstars
BIO99999-B-San Diego Superstars
BIO12348    -The Life of PI

The above is the result of concatenating the First field with the second, title field like this:

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SELECT Title, FileID, FileID + ' - ' + Title  AS TitleIndo   
FROM Library_Info

The data is uploaded from an Excel spreadsheet and I am outputting these results in a query and in a dropdown box.

How do I get the 5th and 6th records to display with the same alignment as the other records? This is affecting how the labels we insert on the book covers print.

What I have tried:

RTrim, Ltrim, I checked the data for hidden carriage returns (there weren't any),

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like '%'+char(13)+'%'

and

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like '%'+char(10)+'%'

, google search

Posted 24-Oct-16 9:24am

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Wendelius 24-Oct-16 17:14pm

The example data doesn't look like it's directly from the SQL statement since it's already formatted differently. But more importantly, what client technology you use, Forms, WPF, ASP?

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Rahul_Biswas · Answer 1 · 2016-10-24T23:28:00

Solution 1

Have you tried using this?

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SELECT Title, 
FileID, 
LEFT(LTRIM(FileID)+SPACE(13),13) + ' - ' + Title  AS TitleIndo   
FROM Library_Info

Posted 24-Oct-16 23:28pm

Rahul_Biswas